Summum Bonum and Judgments
For more details on this topic, see Intrinsic value (ethics)#Life stances and intrinsic value.Judgments on the highest good have generally fallen into four categories:
- Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with the maximum possible psychological happiness for the maximum number of people;
- Eudaemonism or Virtue Ethics, when the highest good is identified with flourishing;
- Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty;
- Rational Eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.
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“The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature—were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)